From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 22:16:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B009816A4CE for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 22:16:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gw.catspoiler.org (217-ip-163.nccn.net [209.79.217.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52C2D43D31 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 22:16:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (mousie.catspoiler.org [192.168.101.2]) by gw.catspoiler.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9FMFtpD082112; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:15:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200410152215.i9FMFtpD082112@gw.catspoiler.org> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:15:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis To: bob@boulderlabs.com In-Reply-To: <200410151741.i9FHfMxQ036620@vec.boulderlabs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.3-BETA7 install cd: kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled (fwd) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 22:16:14 -0000 On 15 Oct, Robert Gray wrote: > I'm a firm believer that we should encourage our users to > buy ECC systems - motherboards that support ECC, and the > more expensive SIMMs/DIMMs that have redundant bits. Oh yeah. Please tell me where I can find a motherboard that supports both the newer Athlon XP's (with a 333 MHz FSB) and ECC RAM. The only Athlon XP motherboards that I found that support ECC RAM use the AMD 761 chipset, which is limited to a 266 MHz FSB. Socket 370 motherboards that support ECC RAM are also getting rare. The only ones that support the newer processors use VIA chipsets and the chipset documentation is unavailable to end-users, which makes it rather difficult to write software to report ECC errors. I sure wish that Intel had upgraded the 440 BX chipset to support the newer processors. Up to date and documented ECC hardware appears to be limited to some of the Intel P4 chipsets and the Opteron/Athlon64.